Senior Developer Advocate Modern App Development

We are a team of engineers that translate our real-world experience to help our user communities solve problems. With a focus on AI-accelerated workflows and next-generation developer ecosystems you will have the opportunity to meet fast-moving teams where they are helping them lay strong engineering foundations and broadening your impact to the developer community at large. This is a unique opportunity to use both your engineering depth and authentic storytelling skills to shape how the next wave of builders approach software health scalability and observability.

What Youll Do:

• Help developers hone their craft in an AI-accelerated world by exploring how AI coding assistants and rapid-prototyping tools change software workflows and guiding teams on how to balance rapid prototyping with established engineering practices around performance code health and system reliability.
• Build in public by creating authentic peer-to-peer technical content sharing your engineering insights directly where modern developers collaborate in person and online.
• Drive a constructive bidirectional feedback loop between fast-moving developer communities and our internal teams translating real-world developer experiences into actionable product insights to shape our roadmap while advocating for user needs from the inside.
• Design and ship high-quality open-source boilerplate templates quickstarts and tools that make integrating observability seamless across AI native workflows next-gen platforms (Vercel Supabase etc.) and cloud providers (AWS GCP Azure).

Who You Are:

• A builder with approximately 10 years of software engineering experience ideally having shipped applications from scratch or worked within an early-stage startup environment where youve worn multiple hats.
• An AI-fluent developer who natively leverages AI coding assistants and rapid-prototyping tools as a core part of your regular day-to-day development workflow.
• Multi-stack familiar comfortable writing and debugging code across multiple programming languages (such as JavaScript/TypeScript or Python) and experienced with deployment paradigms spanning next-gen platforms and traditional cloud ecosystems.
• An authentic communicator with approximately 3 years of experience in technical storytelling and community engagement backed by a publicly available portfolio of peer-to-peer artifacts like GitHub repositories technical blogs video walkthroughs or public speaking presentations.
• A forward thinker who loves self-driven exploration of emerging technologies and is deeply passionate about developer education mentorship and helping other engineers hone their craft.

Bonus points:

• Active community presence or leadership: You are an active participant contributor or moderator in developer spaces (such as meetups Discord Reddit or open-source ecosystems focused on next-gen tech).

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. Thats okay. If youre passionate about technology and want to grow your skills we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth:

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development product training and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks our Internal panel discussions
• Free global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6
• Competitive global benefits

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

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